TANAKA Akihiko, Professor

Biography

TANAKA Akihiko is Professor of International Politics and is currently the director of the IOC. He obtained his B.A. in International Relations at the University of Tokyo's College of Arts and Sciences in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. After returning to Japan, he became a researcher at the Research Institute for Peace and Security. In 1983, he became Research Associate at the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and was named Associate Professor in 1984. He was also Visiting Professor at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, in 1986. In 1990 he moved to the Institute of Oriental Culture of the University of Tokyo and was Associate Professor there until 1998 when he assumed his current position. He was a Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1994 to 1995. He has served as a special member of several government advisory councils. He was a Japanese member of the Asia Europe Vision Group and a Japanese member of the East Asia Vision Group.

Professor Tanaka's specialties include theories of international politics, contemporary international relations in East Asia, and issues in Japan-U.S. relations. His recent major publications include: Word Politics: Japanese
Diplomacy under Globalization (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 2000, 312 pp.); National Security (Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1997, 382 pp.); The New Middle Ages (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1996, 307pp.); Wars and the International System (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1992, v + 326 pp.) co-edited with Yoshinobu Yamamoto; and Sino-Japanese Relations 1945-1990 (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press,
1991 v + 234 + 7 pp.)

Selected Publication

  • Joseph S. Jr Nye and David A. Welch, Akihiko Tanaka and Koji Murata tr., Kokusai funso: riron to rekishi (Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History),2011.4.30, Yuhikaku.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Akio Wananabe ed., (Shaping the Future: Asia Pcific in the 21st century),2010.4.12, Tokyo.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, 2009.3.18, Tokyo, 238pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "The Yasukuni Issue and Japan's International Relations," Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Kazuhiko Togo eds., East Asia's Haunted Present, 2008, Praeger Security International, pp. 119-141.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Ajia no nakano Nihon (Japan and International Politics in Asia),2007.11.6, Tokyo, NTT Publishing Co., Ltd, 359pp.
  • Takashi Inoguchi, Akihiko Tanaka, Shigeto Sonoda and Timur Dadabaev, Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia (Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia),2007.8.31, Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 605pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "The development of the ASEAN+3 framework," Melissa G. Curley and Nicholas Thomas eds., Advancing East Asian Regionalism, 2007, New York, Routledge, pp. 52-73.
  • Akihikio Tanaka, "Global and Regional Geo-strategic Implications of China's Emergence," Asian Economic Policy Review, 1, no.1, 2006.6, Carlton, Victoria , Blackwell Pub. Asia , pp. 180-196.
  • Takashi Inoguchi, Akihiko Tanaka, Shigeto Sonoda and Timur Dadabaev, Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia, 2006.4.10, Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 579pp.
  • Takashi Inoguchi, Akihiko Tanaka, Keiichi Tsunekawa and Masayuki Yamauchi, Taizo Yakushiji eds., Kokusai seiji jiten 2005.11, Tokyo.
  • Takashi Inoguchi, Miguel Basanez, Akihiko Tanaka and Timur Dadabaev, Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia (Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia),2005.7.1, Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 506pp.
  • Takashi Inoguchi, Miguel Basanez, Akihiko Tanaka and Timur Dadabaev, Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia, 2005.3, Acabados Editoriales Incorporados, 503pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Fukuzatsusei no sekai: "tero no seiki" to Nihon (The World of Complexity: Japan and the Century of Terrorism),2003.5, Tokyo, Keiso Shobo, 269pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "'Higashi-Ajia' to iu shin-chiiki keisei no kokoromi: ASEAN + 3 no tenkai (Attempts of creating a new region called 'East Asia': Development of ASEAN+3),"Tokyo Daigaku Toyo-bunka Kenkyu-sho ed., Ajia-gaku no shorai-zo (The Future Image of Asian Studies),2003, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, pp. 269-306.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Jean Connell Hoff tr., The New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century, (LTCB International Library selection), 12, 2002, Tokyo, International House of Japan, xx+264pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Nittyuu seiji kankeiTatsumi Okabe ed., Chugoku o meguru kokusai kankyo 2001, Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, pp. 41-78.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Wado Poritikusu: Gurobarizeshon no naka no Nihon gaiko (Word Politics: Japanese Doplomacu under Globalization),2000, Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo, 312pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy," Takashi Inoguchi and Purnendra Jain eds., Japanese Foreign Policy Today: A Reader, 1999.4, New York, Palgrave, pp. 3-17.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Gurobarizeshon to kaihatsuJunzo Kawada ed., Kaihatsu to seiji (Iwanami koza kaihatsu to bunka 6, 1998.2, Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, pp. 225-246.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Nihon to Kokuren heiwa iji katsudoTakashi Inoguchi ed., Reisen-go no Nichi-Bei kankei 1997.3, Tokyo, NTT Publishing, pp. 99-127.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Anzen hosho: sengo 50 nen no mosaku (National Security),1997, Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 382+.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Atarashii "Chusei" (The New Middle Ages),1996, Tokyo, Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, v+326pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "A Model for Japanese Security in the twenty-first Century," Japan Review of International Affairs, 10, no.4, 1996, fall, Tokyo, Japan Institute of International Affairs, pp. 276-290.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Kokuren heiwa katsudo to NihonMasashi Nishihara and Selig S. Harrison eds., Kokuren PKO to Nichi-Bei ampo 1995.5, Tokyo, Aki Shobo, pp. 137-156.
  • Rodric Braithwaite, Robert D. Blackwill and Akihiko Tanaka, Engaging Russia, 1995, New York, The Trilateral Commission.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Makuro rekishi riron no kano-seiEto Shinkichi sensei koki kinen rombun-shu henshu iin-kai ed., Kokusai shisutemu no riron to jittai (Theory and Reality of International System),(20 seiki Ajia no kokusai kankei: Eto Shinkichi sensei koki kinen rombun-shu (International Relations in Asian in the 20th century)),4, 1995, Tokyo, Hara Shobo, pp. 1-18.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Higashi-Ajia no anzen hosho to Nihon no seisakuSusumu Yamakage ed., Shi kokusai chitsujo no koso: Urano Tatsuo hakushi kanreki kinen rombun-shu 1994, Tokyo, Nansosha.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Senso to kokusai shisutemu (Wars and the International System),1992, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, v+326pp.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Socialism in East Asia: Vietnam, Mongolia, and North Korea," Gilbert Rozman ed., Dismantling Communism: Common Causes and Regional Variations, 1992, Washington, D.C., The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, pp. 225-242.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Nit-Chu kankei 1945 - 1990 (Sino-Japanese Relations 1945-1990),1991, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, V+234pp. +7 .
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Yuteki kankei no suii riron to Bei-Chu-So sankaku kankeiKokusai seiji (International relations),no.95, 1990.10, Tokyo, The Japan Association of International Relations, pp. 16-29.
  • Akihiko Tanaka and Tatsuo Urano, "Sekai no naka no Ajia, Taihei-yo chiiki to NihonAjia kenkyu (Asian studies),36, no.2, 1990.2, Tokyo, Japan Association for Asian Studies.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Yang Jing tr., Takashi Iguchi ed., Shijie xitong: guoji zhengzhi (Gendai Seiji-gaku sosho 19, 1990, Beijing.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "International Security and Japan's Contribution in the 1990s.," Japan Review of International Affairs, 4, no.2, 1990, fall, Tokyo, Japan Institute of International Affairs, pp. 187-208.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Nihon gaiko to kokunai seiji no renkan: gaiatsu no seiji-gakuKokusai mondai (International affairs),no.348, 1989.3, Tokyo, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, pp. 23-36.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, Sekai shisutemu (The World System),1989, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, ix+231pp. +11 .
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Nichi-Bei keizai no seiji kateiKokusai mondai (International affairs),no.336, 1988.3, Tokyo, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, pp. 40-51.
  • Akihiko Tanaka and Syumpei Kumon, "From Prestige to Wealth to Knowledge," Takashi Inoguchi and Daniel Okimoto eds., The Changing International Context, (The Political Economy of Japan), 2, 1988, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, pp. 64-82.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Evolution of Chinese Foreign Policy in the 1980s," Robert Scalapino ed., Robert Scalapino, Seizaburo Saro, Jusuf Wanondi and Sung-joo Han eds., Asia and the Major Powers: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy, no.3, 1988, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, pp. 138-160.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "kondorachefu no nami to haken saikuru - riron-teki sabei (The Kondratieff Waves and the Hegemonic Cycles--A Theoretical Survey),"Kokusai seiji (International relations),no.82, 1986.5, Tokyo, The Janan Association of International Relations, pp. 94-115.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Bei-Chu-So no aida deAkio Watanabe ed., Sengo Nihon no taigai seisaku (Yuhikaku sensho 693, 1985, Tokyo, Yuhikaku, pp. 220-253.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Kokusai chitsujo to sono antei: shironShakai kagaku kiyo (The Proceedings of the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,University of Tokyo),no.33, 1984.3, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, pp. 113-148.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "China, China-Watching, and CHINA=WATCHER," Donald A. Sylvan and Steve Chan eds., Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Perception, Congnition, and Artificial Intelligence (Praeger), Ph.D. dissertation, 1984.2, pp. 32-47.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "'Kyokasho mondai' o meguru Chugoku no seisaku kettei (Chainese Decision-making on Controversy over School Textbooks),"Tatsumi Okabe ed., Chugoku gaiko: seisaku kettei no kozo (Chinese Diplomacy: Structure of Decision-making),(Kokusai kenkyu sosho 31, 1983.12, Tokyo, The Japan Institute of International Affairs.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Seisaku kettei no shimyureshon - ChugokuKokusai seiji (International relations),no.74, 1983.8, summer, Tokyo, The Japan Association of International Relations, pp. 134-135.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Internal-External Linkage in Chinese International Conflict Behavior: A Macro Model," Journal of North East Asian Sutudies, Ph.D. dissertation, 2, 1983.3, pp. 39-57.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Chugoku no kokuosai funso kodo no makuro moderu 1950 - 1978 (Macro Model of Chinese Action of International Conflict 1950-1978),"Ajia kenkyu (Asian studies),29, no.1, 1982.4, Tokyo, Japan Association for Asian Studies.
  • Akihiko Tanaka, "Chinese International Conflict Behavior, 1950-1978," Ph.D. dissertation, 1981.9.